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Tomorrow's Biodiversity

Tomorrow’s Biodiversity was an FSC project funded by the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation for five years (2013-2017 inclusive) and has a one year extension for 2018 (see below). The main five-year project helped us to identify important gaps in identification and monitoring skills, as well as barriers to filling those gaps, and developing/trialling solutions with new training, resources (e.g. new electronic resources) and other interventions. Esmée Fairbairn has also funded a one-year extension to the project to help carry the development of digital resources developed during the project, e.g. the ID Framework and the QGIS Plugin, into the FSC BioLinks project.

The first two years (2013-2014) focused identifying gaps and barriers and framing the delivery phase. The delivery phase (2015-2017 inclusive) developed 'exemplar' projects to address some of the gaps and trial new ways of working that can overcome some of the barriers. The project enabled the Field Studies Council to develop new resources and training for taxa that were under-resourced but which had the potential to make a valuable contribution to our understanding of how biodiversity fares over the coming decades in the face of rapid environmental change.

End of Project Report. This is a report on the entire Tomorrow's Biodiversity Project (it includes the full five years of the initial funded project, 2013-2017, but not the extension funding for 2018).